Apple is considering launching its own primary healthcare service for users

Apple is reportedly developing its own subscription-based healthcare service, but is struggling to get it off the ground due to failed tests among its own employees, The Wall Street Journal reports. The service is said to link data from users’ Apple Watches with ‘virtual and in-person care provided by Apple doctors.’ Testing of the service, … Read more

How to dodge the care trap and prepare for late-life healthcare

The cost of care in old age is soaring and the Government is no closer to fixing the funding crisis, leaving families to find billions of pounds in the meantime. Financial advisers have told Money Mail that clients are increasingly concerned about how they may be able to pay for their care. And adviser trade … Read more

Private equity group swoops on pharma services provider UDG Healthcare

Private equity group swoops on pharma services provider UDG Healthcare with a £2.6bn bid By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:56 BST, 12 May 2021 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 12 May 2021 Private equity buyers have swooped on pharmaceuticals services provider UDG Healthcare with a £2.6billion bid. The London-listed firm urged shareholders to … Read more

Fully vaccinated healthcare workers were up to 18 TIMES less likely to be infected, two studies find

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE’s coronavirus vaccine is effective at preventing the disease in fully immunized people, two new studies find.  In one report, just 0.4 percent of healthcare workers in Israel who received both shots of the COVID-19 immunization later tested positive compared to 7.2 percent of unvaccinated employees. This means healthcare workers who … Read more

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson gets second dose of COVID-19 vaccine as he salutes healthcare workers

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson celebrated getting his second Covid-19 vaccine dose on Saturday. The 48-year-old pro wrestler–turned–superstar actor shared a selfie of himself getting jab number two with his 231million Instagram followers over the weekend. He didn’t just focus on his own good fortune, but also included a stirring salute to frontline healthcare workers risking … Read more

Fewer than 1% of healthcare workers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 test positive for the virus

Coronavirus cases among healthcare workers declined dramatically after staff got their first vaccine dose, two new studies have found. In one study of employees at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2.6 percent of all workers who were unvaccinated tested positive for COVID-19 compared to 1.82 percent of those given their first shot, a … Read more

Consultant, 57, sues healthcare chain for £2.7m after being accused of sexually assaulting a nurse

A senior hospital consultant is suing one of Britain’s biggest private healthcare chains for £2.7million after he was accused of sexually assaulting a nurse by commenting on her ‘lovely biscuits’.  Vascular surgeon Simon Payne was suspended and later barred from working at Spire Healthcare over the alleged incident, in which he is said to have … Read more

Consultant, 57, sues healthcare chain for £2.7m after being accused of sexually assaulting a nurse

A senior hospital consultant is suing one of Britain’s biggest private healthcare chains for £2.7million after he was accused of sexually assaulting a nurse by commenting on her ‘lovely biscuits’.  Vascular surgeon Simon Payne was suspended and later barred from working at Spire Healthcare over the alleged incident, in which he is said to have … Read more

Almost a QUARTER of London’s frontline healthcare workers have failed to accept the Covid jab

Almost a quarter of frontline NHS staff in London, including some doctors and nurses, have failed to accept the Covid jab, shock Government figures reveal. An investigation by The Mail on Sunday today exposes how the drive to inoculate health workers has stalled amid an alarming vaccine hesitancy, particularly among some ethnic minority employees. More … Read more